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Sat
21
Apr '07

Minced Pork Sauce

800gm minced pork
1/2 rice bowl minced garlic
1 rice bowl minced onion
1/2 rice bowl minced anchovies
1/2 rice bowl oyster sauce
1/2 rice bowl cooking oil
3 table spoon soy sauce
2 table spoon black soy sauce
2 table spoon sesame oil
1 tea spoon of salt
a dash of cooking wine (shao-xing-jiu)(optional)

heat oil, pour in the onion fry until light brown, add anchovies and garlic. fry the mixture until fragrant add the minced pork, mix all the ingredients then add a rice bowl of water, and all the seasoning, mix well cook for 10 minutes.

Minced Pork Sauce

Minced Pork Sauce

for the extra keep in the fridge after cooling.
Minced Pork Sauce

This minced pork sauce is good to go with rice and even mee, for a quick meal just heat the cold sauce, add some mixed veges and serve as a fast food.

Mon
7
Aug '06

Potatoes Meat Ball

Ingredients:

  • Some mince meat (pork taste better)
  • 2-3 potatoes
  • Seasoning: Oyster sauce, Pepper, Salt to taste
  • Some Breadcrumb 

Steps :

  1. Potatoes cut in slices, steam and mash it.
  2. Blend the meat.
  3. Add both mash potatoes and meat together.
  4. Add seasoning.
  5. Knead into small ball and coated with breadcrumb.
  6. Deep fry it and serve.

Note : I use biscuit (cream cracker) to form the breadscrumb.

Fri
7
Jul '06

咕噜肉 (Sweet & Sour Pork)

Ingredients:

- Pork – lean portion

- Corn flour

- Onion – cut in small size

- Potatoes – cut in dice

- Carrot – cut in dice

- Green peas – one small cane

- Chilli sauce & Tomatoes sauce

- Salt to taste

Cut the pork as below pic.

Then arrange pork slices nicely on chopping board; use Back of a knife blade to “chop” the pork. This is to make the pork good texture while eating (有口感). Try this! You may find the pork taste differently as compare to just fry like that! 

                                Chop, chop, chop.

                                  After chopped.

Then marinate the chopped pork with oyster sauce, pepper, ginger and lime juice.

Coated with corn flour and fry.

Wait till the fried pork not so hot, then cut in bitable size.

                                  Just eat like that also nice.

Fry some chopped shallots and garlic, put in carrot, potatoes, stir fry first as these 2 ingredients need to cook till a bit tender.

Later add in onion, green peas….also can add whatever you like, such as cucumber, capsicum, red chilli etc…

Lastly add in some chilli and tomatoes sauce and little bit of salt.

Add a little bit of water, to get some sauce. If too watery, can add some corn powder to thicken the sauce.

Note : If you want to give to kids, after put in tomato sauce, then scoop some up and set aside, then only continue adding chilli sauce.

Stir well then pour them onto the pork.

Let me know how’s the taste if u try it!

Tue
13
Jun '06

Minced Meat With Vege

This is my mother’s recipe that I learned.

Ingredient:
Minced Meat (Beef/Pork)
1 tablespoon of oyster sauce
1 teaspoon of soy sauce
1 teaspoon of  pepper
½ tablespoon of corn flour

Sauce:
1 tablespoon of oyster sauce
1 teaspoon of pepper
1 teaspoon of soy sauce
2 potatoes
1 carrot
1 tomato
2-3 onions
½ cup of water
 

 

 

 

1.     Marinate the meat with 1 tablespoon of oyster sauce, 1 teaspoon of pepper and 1 teaspoon of soy sauce and ½ tablespoon of corn flour.
2.     Stir it thoroughly and make it to meat cake.
3.     Stir fry it with some oil. Put the meat aside on a plate.
4.     Chop the potatoes and carrot into cubes.
5.     Chop the onions and slides the tomato into 6 pieces.
6.     Heat up the wok with a little oil.
7.     Put the onions in and stir fry till it turns a little brown.
8.     Add soy sauce, pepper, potatoes, carrots, tomatoes and oyster sauce. Stir it.
9.     Add ½ cup of water. Stir it.
10.    Put low heat and cover it.
11.    Keep it boiling till the potato and carrots are soft.

Note: If it looks dry, you can add a bit more water.
         If too much water, you can add corn flour water to thicken it.

12.   Add the meat in and stir it.
13.   Serve it.
  

 

 

Tue
23
May '06

Dumpling

Simple dumpling —

first marinate the miced pork, few bunches of chive 韭菜 finely chopped, mix with the pork together with a bit of soy sauce, salt, pepper, sesame oil, if can add a bit of shao-xing-hua-diao 绍兴花雕 lagi best, then put in the fridge.

while the pork is marinating, prepare the skin, we need –

>> 400gm all purpose flour, 1 egg, and some warm water.

stir in the egg, add the water slowly, use hand knead till it form a dough. Then cut in into small dough ball, use roller roll it flat about the size of a baseball, scoop the pork on the dough and seal the edge.

Made about 36 dumpling, if cannot finish can frozen it (before cook) –
frozen dumpling
Before put in the container, sprinkle some flour in the container, and on the dunmpling.

Bring the water to boil, add a bit of salt and oil, put in the dumpling, cook for about 5 minutes, then drain the water. heat some oil in the frying pan, arrange the dumplings in the pan, and fry till the bottom golden brown –
frozen dumpling

Serve with ginger or garlic and vinager –
frozen dumpling

If subsidisepork with chicken, add a little extra oil in the chicken, give the meat more moist —
frozen dumpling

Wed
5
Apr '06

Braised pork belly with peanut

OK, very high cholesterol recipe ahead, read at your own risk.

peanuts pork belly
* 2 rice bowl of peanut, I use those with the skin on, more fragrant (learn from late-FIL). Cook one hour before hand, then put in the slow cooker together with the pork.
* 1 lump of pork belly (I got it from Euro Deli, that was why it tied nicely with “ribbon”, 其实是驚佢肥汆汆走咗位,所以用绳绑住佢呱,我都唔喺好清楚。)

marinate the pork belly garlic, star anise, brown sugar
* 1 rice bowl of soy sauce, for marinate and braise.
* 1 table spoon of five spicies powder 五香粉.

Condiment:
* 1 clove of garlic, cut the top, leave it intact.
* 3 - 4 table spoon of brown sugar or few pieces of rock sugar.
* few pieces of star anise 八角.

marinate the pork belly with the five spicies powder and 2 - 3 table spoon soy sauce, nevermind a bit extra on the marinate, the remain can put in the pot to braise too.

deep fry the pork belly all in the pot
fry each side of the marinated pork belly for about 30 second in high heat.
then transfer the pork belly with all the condiments and soy sauce to the slow cooker, then put in the cooked peanut (peanut on the side of the pork belly, pour hot water to the pork level, and cook for 6 hours (I cook it in the morning, and have it for dinner)

It is the end product, the soy sauce and brown sugar give a very nice colour to the pork, the skin and lard all jellying. and the peanut absorbed the lard is now plump, soft and fragrant.
braised pork belly with peanut

braised pork belly with peanut
emm… the meat just melt in the mouth. Annabelle love this dish very much, Isabelle… ok lar, so so lar… Twinsdad: “Yee? you cook bak-gut-teh ah?” emm? because of the star anise and garlic? may be.

* if you afraid of the lard, can keep it in the fridge (separated the peanut), after few hours, scoop away the lard from the top, this is how I eat some “fatty” food.

Fri
24
Mar '06

Dish of the Lazy Day – Spicy Steam Ribs

If you are super lazy to cook today, try this.

Ingredients:

500g pork ribs.
5 - 8 cloves of unpeel garlic. (slightly pounded)
1.5 tbsp LEE KUM KEE spicy black bean sauce.
3 tbsp White vinegar.

Method:

1. Season the pork ribs with the white vinegar and wash it off after 15 min. This step can be omitted if you are super lazy.

2. Season the ribs with LEE KUM KEE spicy black bean sauce for ½ hour or preferably longer.

Spicy black bean sauce

3. Place the ribs nicely into a shallow dish, stuck in the unpeel garlic between ribs.

Before steam

4. Place it into the hot wok contain boiled water, steam in moderate heat for 15 – 20 min.

5. The dish is ready to be served.

yummy
Tips:
If you are extremely lazy busy to cook, you can actually put the dish into rice cook to steam while cooking rice.
Sat
18
Mar '06

Euro-Deli’s Smoked Pork Knuckle

  • 3 carrots,
  • 5-6 stock of celery,
  • 1 big onion (about the size of the rice bowl!),
  • 4 tomatoes,
  • 1 clove of garlic,
  • 1 table spoon of pepper
  • salt to taste (the smoked pork knuckle is quite salty itself, so taste the soup before add more salt)
  • 1 Euro-Deli smoked pork knuckle,

Smoked pork knuckle

all cut into chunk.

Deep fry one grove of garlic in the wok, throw in the knuckle chunk, stir fry till brown, then add in all the veggies, fry for a while, pour in about 1.5 litre water, let it boil, then transfer all into the slow cooker, add a tea spoon of ground pepper, cook overnight.

It was heaven… if don’t take pork, the Euro-Deli’s smoked turkey wing also work well.

Smoked pork knuckle soup

boil some mee add into the soup
Smoked pork knuckle soup with mee

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